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Queens Hall in Nuneaton on Friday. Dead cool venue, great soundman, not a huge crowd but it was all right Rock City on Saturday supporting Buzzcocks. I was just a bit blown away to be playing on the main stage at Rock City where I've seen so many gigs. Anyway, it sounded ace and we went down really well which was a bit surprising! Then we rushed off to a gig at The Rigger in our home town. I've never seen it so packed! Awesome sound as always (Hi Matt ) and I think we played well, but to be honest I'd had quite a few beers by this point Sunday was a weird one in Clayton Le Moors. It feels more like a folk club or something but everyone was having a good time and danced and sang along. Ace weekend!

This is something I should know about but would like to hear how everyone else copes. I use an analogue desk for direct monitoring in the studio, and this works really well. I have some outboard if people want reverb etc. Anyway, the other day someone asked me to give them a monitor mix from the computer, so that they could hear the exact same reverb as it would be in the mix. This is something I've always shied away from because of latency. I can get near 0 latency with a tiny buffer, but then this compromises CPU performance, especially if I've got a fancy reverb on the go. So,what do you all do? Keep a tiny buffer size and use low-powered plugins? In case it's relevant I'm using a MOTU 24 IO. My PC is running windows 7, has an Athlon chip 3.5GHz 8 cores, and 16Gb RAM

We went with Al Scott for mastering our last album. Not sure how much it was but great results

great bass playing!

[quote name='la bam' timestamp='1475585174' post='3147088'] Do you use an amp modeller/fx/pedals etc to get your sound when going straight into the PA? [/quote] Yeh I have a few pedals for effects, and a BDI21 at the end of the chain as an amp sim. It works quite well without the amp sim straight into a DI, but then I need an extra EQ pedal, and anyway, I like the sound of the amp sim

I've got one bass drum I use for gigs. I have it tuned tighter than I would for the studio, and have a "kick port" thing on the front. I also use a heavy wooden beater and a heavy right foot. Obviously if I was competing with two half stacks and a bassist with too much low end in their sound, I will struggle to cut through, but at the volumes most of you are (hopefully) playing at in pubs, I will not struggle to cut through. Still, it is nice to have some reinforcement on the kick

I gig without an amp at all. I just get the soundman to put loads of bass in my monitor, so a decent wedge will do. There's one local venue with smaller monitors and he prefers me to bring an amp (which I have no problem with) so I guess you want something nice and substantial

let us know how you get on

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1475490930' post='3146268'] Chameleonic. Modest. [/quote] oh can I nick that? I think if you saw me playing with my old band you'd have thought I was a bit of a show off. If you saw me playing with a folk/country act you'd think I was under-stated and wonder why I'd brought a 6 string (don't have any 4s or 5s). If you saw me with my new metal band you'd think I was mental and perhaps even obnoxious etc. etc. You can't have the same style for every genre/group you play in

I would loosen the truss rod and see what happens, but then I do have a somewhat cavalier approach

I used to put my kick drum through some pedals and a HH 2 x 12" guitar combo. It was ace!

"failed guitarist"

100 club on Friday and a soaking wet festival on Saturday (both on drums). The 100 club really blew me away, what a great drum sound! Best sound on stage I've ever had. RockStock festival on Saturday was cool. Loads of people there, everyone looked soaked, ad perhaps sozzled. At one point the PA cut out and we played acoustically for a bit. It was a challenge, but also a bit of a relief as when the PA was working it was horribly distorted. Anyway, two good nights!

I've had people asking for a lift, but to just jump in... how rude!

nobody in my family played, but my parents did give me a LOT of support, so I went for the middle option

I have a couple of envelope followers (Q-Tron, BassBalls, Digitech BSW, Boss AW-2) but I don't think any of them would do that sound very well, sorry. Hopefully someone with more squelching experience can recommend one I think you'll need more dirt than the ABM will give you so maybe a multi-effect is the way to go

I just listened to it on youtube and "full" is not a word I'd use to describe it! Almost no bass to it! So I would make sure you're playing in the right octave, get a really fast envelope follower type sound and add a bit of dirt. Either that or a cheap old casio keyboard should be able to do it

it's fine for me

It's tempting. How many amps do you get out of that setup? I have a few digital pedals

dood - is it any less noisy than a decent PSU?

I like to play new things. Usually that's original stuff that either I've written, or someone asks me to write a part for. I regularly come up with ideas that I can't actually play, and so have to practise them. Even if it only takes 5 minutes practise to be able to play the idea, it's still progress, and I'm still a better player. If you don't have similar experiences then I guess you're just always playing stuff that's easily within your abilities. There's nothing wrong with that at all! As long as your enjoying yourself! What worries me is that I've met several players who consider themselves "average and happy" IE not willing to push themselves or practise, and yet they are trying to play beyond their abilities. There are absolutely loads of bands with bassists and/or drummers who can't actually play the material they're trying to play (to a good standard) and are not aware that they're below par. It really winds me up! Obviously you get these buys on other instruments too, but they can kind of get away with it

I love the headstock

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1474414950' post='3137929'] I don't know what "Sex On Fire" us or who recorded it. I probably should but I don't.[/quote] Luckiest man alive?

Great playing BottomE - how do you resist the urge to dance?!?